Oedipus Through the Life Cycle: Childhood
19/05/2012
Exploring this fundamental stage in the emotional development of children
Open Evening at the Institute of Psychoanalysis
09/05/2012
Have you ever thought about becoming a psychoanalyst?
Solitude and Separation Anxiety in Psychoanalysis
04/05/2012
What can psychoanalysis offer to those with a painful sense of isolation or loneliness?
Screening Conditions: Frankenstein
29/04/2012
Part of the series 'Horror: The Dark Side of the Unconscious'
Screening Conditions: Matador
25/03/2012
Part of the 'Eros and Thanatos' series, exploring cinematic portrayals of love and death
Screening Conditions: Le Boucher
18/03/2012
Part of the 'Eros and Thanatos' series, exploring cinematic portrayals of love and death
Temporality in the Unconscious - A Matter of Time: From Churches to Sculpture
09/03/2012
Exploring notions of time and space through contemporary sculpture
Screening Conditions: The Criminal Life of Archibald de la Cruz
26/02/2012
Part of the 'Eros and Thanatos' series, exploring cinematic portrayals of love and death
Eating Disorders: Anorexia and Obesity
25/02/2012
Examining the links, causes and consequences of these complex disorders
Screening Conditions: Ossessione
29/01/2012
Part of the 'Eros and Thanatos' series, exploring cinematic portrayals of love and death
Oedipus Through the Life Cycle: Infancy
21/01/2012
Exploring this fundamental stage in the emotional development of infants and very young children
Introductory Lectures: Spring Term
11/01/2012
A series of talks and group discussions covering the core concepts of psychoanalysis and their main applications
epff6: Sixth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival
03/11/2011 - 06/11/2011
Border-Crossing: Migration Across National and Mental States
About Memory, Interpretation and Object Relation in Today's Psychoanalysis
28/10/2011
An lecture exploring the limitations of the notions of memory and object relation
3rd James MacKeith Memorial Lecture: Lord David Ramsbotham - What Price Imprisonment?
27/10/2011
The former Chief inspector of Prisons addresses the reasons why the prison system fails to prevent re-offending
Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Thinking About Projective Identification
24/09/2011
An exploration of issues around identity, boundaries and imagination
Comparing the Incomparable and Formalising the Unformulated: The Problem of Clinical Research in Psychoanalysis
21/09/2011
The Institute's Annual Research Lecture, presented by David Tuckett
Sport and Psychoanalysis
21/05/2011
Michael Brearley and Leon Kleimberg discuss team dynamics, leadership and motivation in sport
The 'We of Me': Versions (literary and clinical) of the primal scene
20/05/2011
“It is probable that if we were never bewildered there would never be a story to tell about us” (Henry James, The Art of the Novel)
Screening Conditions: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
10/04/2011
Exploring film from a psychoanalytic perspective
Civilization and its Discontents
08/04/2011
Can humans master their drive to aggression and self-destruction?
Open Evening at the Institute of Psychoanalysis
05/04/2011
Interested in training as a psychoanalyst?
The Murder of Sanity and the Sanity of Murder: The Art and Science of Psychoanalysis
19/03/2011
How can psychoanalysis and the arts help us to understand violence, addiction and psychopathy?
Internal and External Migration in Marriage and Families
05/03/2011
How does migration affect individuals, couples and families?
Treating Perverse Patients: A discussion between Don Campbell and Sira Dermen
04/03/2011
An exploration of the dynamics of perversion as manifested in the consulting room.
The Child, the Family and the Outside World
26/02/2011
How can we make sense of the inner experience of babies and young children?
Humour in Psychoanalysis: Film Screening and Discussion of Inconscientes (Unconscious)
13/02/2011
A chance to see and discuss this delightful period comedy
Psychoanalysis, Reading And Writing
18/01/2011
Five seminars on the creative intercourse between psychoanalysis and the arts
The Experience of Psychoanalysis
19/11/2010
What is it like to sit in the analyst's chair, and to lie on the couch?
Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
16/10/2010 - 17/10/2010
How does it affect our sense of identity?
Between Brain and Mind?
15/10/2010
Can we link neuroscience's models of the brain with psychoanalytic models of the mind?